To be off-center

To spread here and there, or to scatter

To be firm or determined

A softened or muffled sound

Showing no emotion

Menacing; threatening

Gesturing widely while speaking

Lazy

secede

succumb

oppress

ruffian

looter

provisions

throng

boon

vengeance

reproach

Hot and stuffy; suffocating

“His face, alert or at rest, was ___________” (167).

“Beyond the thirty‑three familiar shadows, forty thousand men, exhausted by nervous expectation, unable to sleep for romantic dreams of battles yet unfought, lay crazily _________ in their uniforms” (168).

“A mile yet farther on, another army was ____________ helter‑skelter, turning slow, basting themselves with the thought of what they would do when the time came: a leap, a yell, a blind plunge their strategy, raw youth their protection and benediction” (168)

“Move the blood up the body and make the head proud and the spine stiff and the jaw _____________” (171).

“He lay next to it, his arm around it, feeling the tremor, the touch, the _________ thunder as, all the rest of the April night in the year 1862, near the Tennessee River, not far from the Owl Creek, very close to the church named Shiloh, the peach blossoms fell on the drum” (172).

“The guns, with their demeanors of __________ and courage, were typical of something infinitely self-possessed in this clamor of death that swirled around the hill” (51).

“At this __________ threat his comrades broke into renewed jeers” (53).

“They turned to regard Collins and as they perceived him surrounded by __________ comrades the colonel said: ‘Well, by thunder! I guess he’s going’” (55).

“The water flowed slowly in with an __________ gurgle” (59).

“In the spring of 1865, the country was divided in two: the Union in the North, led by Abraham Lincoln, fighting to keep the Southern states from __________ from the United States” (177).

“She ___________ to the disease. More than once he almost died. But his strength and his will to live kept him going” (178)

“‘As our train, frightfully overcrowded,

rolled along toward Danville we were __________ with sorrow for those we left behind us and fears for the safety of General Lee and his army’” (186).

“‘Large numbers of __________ suddenly sprung into existence—I suppose thieves, deserters…who had been hiding’” (186).

“If the mob learned what cargo Parker and his men guarded, then the ____________, driven mad by greed, would have attacked the train” (186).

“… for it must be remembered that in

1865 Richmond was a half-starved city, and the Confederate Government had that morning removed its guards and abandoned the removal of the _____________. . . .” (188).

“He spoke to the __________ of former slaves” (192).

“‘You can cast off the name of slave and trample upon it. . . . Liberty is your birthright.… But you must try to deserve this priceless _________’” (192).

“ During his time in Richmond, Lincoln did not order arrests of any rebel leaders who stayed in the city, did not order their property seized, and said nothing of ___________ or punishment” (194).

“He is about thirty, I think, tall & handsome, mortally wounded & dying royally, without __________, repining, or remorse” (67).

“After this unwelcome progress through my __________ ward I go to breakfast with what appetite I may; find the inevitable fried beef, salt, butter, husky bread & washy coffee [...]” (67).